Timeline for How many configurations of tubes are there?
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| Oct 4, 2023 at 6:42 | comment | added | seldom seen | Sorry, this is all really trivial after all.... In any case, what I am really wondering, I guess, is if there is a naive proof where you move them one-by-one, finitely many times. Scaling the space sort of cleverly evades the problem. | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 20:06 | comment | added | seldom seen | I think that's right. The original cylinders get stretched out into cylinders with cross section the intersection with the plane, which of course they fit inside. | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 20:05 | vote | accept | seldom seen | ||
| Oct 3, 2023 at 17:54 | history | answered | David Wärn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |